A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Monday. The temblor was detected at 17:30:26 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 21:30:26 / January 13, 2020 @ 9:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006zee. Id of event: us70006zee. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.0119° West, 17.9106° North.
The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Barranquitas, Coco (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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